Ubuntu
glibc package

iconv should make intelligent warnings

Bug #287050 reported by Pierre on 2008-10-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	glibc (Ubuntu)	New	Wishlist	Unassigned

Binary package hint: libc6

$ LC_ALL=C iconv --verbose -f MAC -t LATIN-9 file.sql > file2.sql
file.sql:
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1016109

it would be great if it could precise the line where the problem occurs

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-10-21:

It's pretty easy to figure that out from the position, isn't it? A good editor will let you go straight there.

(I suspect iconv simply doesn't keep track of the line number right now.)

Changed in glibc:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Pierre (pierre-beaumadier) wrote on 2008-10-22:

Yes a good editor can show it easily, but without one it's not that easy.

I manage to print the line with head -c <number> file.sql | tail -n 1 ,
but it doesn't tell me the line

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